Pearl Harbor
- The attack took place on December 7, 1941.
- Although the aerial attack was very successful, the submarines failed to finish off any wounded ship inside the harbour.
- The attack's success surprised the Japanese as much as the Americans.
- The last part of the decoded Japanese message stated that U.S. relations were to be severed.
- The Japanese attack force was under the command of Admiral Nagumo.
- Japansese force consisted of six carriers with 423 planes.
- At 6 a.m. the first Japanese attack wave of 83 planes took off.
- Nickname for Pearl Harbor is "Gibraltar of the Pacific."
- Eighteen U.S. ships were hit.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy," in reference to the attack.